Hard to have a meaningful discussion about this when it’s behind a paywall. Programs come and go. From the immigration website it says they reached their cap for 2025, so it doesn’t sound completely unexpected. It does say they plan on processing fewer applications, which is also not a surprise.
But also, I’m much less concerned about the employers. Shit happens and programs change. Any business person who thinks otherwise is underprepared.
Jaded_Promotion8806 on
We pay either way, right? Either for the administration required to get these skilled refugees working or for the societal, opportunity, as well as very direct costs of them not being able to.
We’ve been warned about our productivity crisis for decades and at the same time are throttling these folks’ ability to be productive. Make it make sense.
OrbAndSceptre on
Plenty of Canadians and legal residents who can fill those jobs or be trained to do them.
Employers want a permanent low-income caste of workers to exploit. No sympathies here. Invest in people or go bust.
skelecorn666 on
A step in the right direction.
Nothing good comes from artificially incentivizing people to move to already have-not rural and northern regions, however, I don’t see those programs being shut down yet. If it’s so bad being here, then what are we doing here unsupported financially like they are? It was all a scam.
Locals are now priced out of the market, unemployment is even worse, we have no infrastructure, capacity, or services for the influx of southerners, never mind foreigners. Rent has doubled, and housing availability is zero, that’s *with* every house having been divided into as many “units” as possible by the new non-local property owners.
Our mayors, and chambers of commerce all threw their constituents under the bus to prop up their personal ponzis, the province to prop up their ponzi, and the federal government to prop up *their* ponzi scheme.
The Boomers’ era ended (perpetual ponzi schemes), we need to get real and have an economic model that ebbs and flows with the times. Right now we’re so overinflated we’ll have to deflate to our actual economically sustainable size, then resume organic growth (in accordance with reconciliation) with the help of automation and modernization to improve our productivity level.
This economy based on paper bullshit **does** nothing. (like all these bad autoloans we’ve sold newcomers who will just skip out on them coming to roost)
PineBNorth85 on
Start training or educating potential employees again. That was common for decades. Now no employer wants to do it.
Human-ish514 on
Sounds like all those employers should be at the unemployment office asking for employees with the skills they require. Then, if they can’t find any, perhaps they should invest in one of the unemployed workers that are available.
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Hard to have a meaningful discussion about this when it’s behind a paywall. Programs come and go. From the immigration website it says they reached their cap for 2025, so it doesn’t sound completely unexpected. It does say they plan on processing fewer applications, which is also not a surprise.
But also, I’m much less concerned about the employers. Shit happens and programs change. Any business person who thinks otherwise is underprepared.
We pay either way, right? Either for the administration required to get these skilled refugees working or for the societal, opportunity, as well as very direct costs of them not being able to.
We’ve been warned about our productivity crisis for decades and at the same time are throttling these folks’ ability to be productive. Make it make sense.
Plenty of Canadians and legal residents who can fill those jobs or be trained to do them.
Employers want a permanent low-income caste of workers to exploit. No sympathies here. Invest in people or go bust.
A step in the right direction.
Nothing good comes from artificially incentivizing people to move to already have-not rural and northern regions, however, I don’t see those programs being shut down yet. If it’s so bad being here, then what are we doing here unsupported financially like they are? It was all a scam.
Locals are now priced out of the market, unemployment is even worse, we have no infrastructure, capacity, or services for the influx of southerners, never mind foreigners. Rent has doubled, and housing availability is zero, that’s *with* every house having been divided into as many “units” as possible by the new non-local property owners.
Our mayors, and chambers of commerce all threw their constituents under the bus to prop up their personal ponzis, the province to prop up their ponzi, and the federal government to prop up *their* ponzi scheme.
The Boomers’ era ended (perpetual ponzi schemes), we need to get real and have an economic model that ebbs and flows with the times. Right now we’re so overinflated we’ll have to deflate to our actual economically sustainable size, then resume organic growth (in accordance with reconciliation) with the help of automation and modernization to improve our productivity level.
This economy based on paper bullshit **does** nothing. (like all these bad autoloans we’ve sold newcomers who will just skip out on them coming to roost)
Start training or educating potential employees again. That was common for decades. Now no employer wants to do it.
Sounds like all those employers should be at the unemployment office asking for employees with the skills they require. Then, if they can’t find any, perhaps they should invest in one of the unemployed workers that are available.
No? Why don’t those employers want to work?